In Process -- Nov 2013

First Draft

“Limering”. I’ve got about 13,000 words. I hope this draft is better than the last first draft I wrote this way. I really ought to read Clairvology to see if the problem persists across all drafts, since that’s my last year’s NaNoWriMo book, but who has the time?

Editing

“Selkie Girls are Easy”. Fourth draft done, after going through the first four pages again.
“Wind/Water/Salt”. Typed and typed and typed, and finished! 553 pages of longhand, about 150,000 words.

Connecting

SFContario. There’s a person I always see at panels, and she seems to leave the same time I do, so I feel like I should introduce myself and say we should form a crit group together or something, but you know, human interaction is hard.

Circulating

2 out there.
9 rejects for 2013 so far.

Knitting

Hella Fair isle dress in Kauni. Tunic portion finished, peplum is my mindless project now.
Carousel socks. First one done, second one at heel opening.
“Ceremonial Armour”. Ignored.
Typing all the time seriously cut into my knitting time as well.

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

In progress: August 2024

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still n eed to take up comments and revise. Persephone (probably not its real name): Continued to think thoughts. Short Stories: After posting that short story from last month onto the workshop, I picked one of those short stories I'd started and forced a plot onto it. Critted 5 Got back 4 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Cathar (self). Started month with two inches done above the armholes. Listening to audiobooks, I finished the fair isle portion, cut the steeks, and set up and knit the neckline. Just the endless finishing now. Blushing Cloud (Knitty S/S24). Started the month with (still) three inches of back done. Socks take priority. Elbrus socks (Knitty first fall 2024). Finished. Elbrus socks II . Started the first. Pole shorts (Joan McGowan-Michael). I knitted these several years ago, but the...

Moraine

So a couple of days I thought I was done with this short story, and I wrote the last line of the story. I even dated it (that's how I can tell it's over). It was a little long, at 6600 words (I was aiming for 5000). But then I was walking to work, and I thought, "My, that was a lame ending. My endings are all crap." So yesterday morning, I scribbled out the date and wrote a bit more. And this morning I wrote a bit more again, and I dated it and called it done. And still, that ending seemed lame. So a few minutes later, in the last paragraph, I scratched out "the Oak Ridges Moraine" and wrote in "that stupid moraine". Much better. Now I can move on. But in the meantime, I was doing a little research about the Moraine, and I discovered that EGTourGuide lives on it. Only by one or two hundred feet, but I thought it was funny. Good for you, EGTourGuide, with all those excellent plants growing on that substandard soil, where in the olden days (you kno...

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